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What can the ingestion of raw garlic do for the body?

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Raw garlic ingestion: It lowers your bad cholesterol and give you garlic breath and odour others side effects, it lowers bp, reduces clotting of blood, increased resistance to cold and other viral diseases, so it is upto you.

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Answered 3/7/2020

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